What is a good HYROX® finish time?

What is the average finish time by division?

Averages sit between about 1:10 and 1:36 depending on the division. Pro athletes and doubles teams are faster than Open singles, and women's divisions finish more slowly than men's. Medians, where a source publishes them, come out a few minutes below the averages.

What is the average finish time by age group and gender?

In the 2025/26 season the median Open finisher is about 1:25 for men and 1:34 for women aged 25 to 29, the fastest groups in both datasets below. Times then rise with age, to about 1:41 for men and 1:45 for women aged 60 to 64. Two analysts publish these figures, and they agree within about a minute.

Women finish about 9 to 10 minutes behind men up to the late thirties, 6 to 8 minutes in the forties and fifties, and 4 minutes at 60 to 64 (our arithmetic on Kracey's medians). The oldest groups are small. Kracey leaves out any group with fewer than 300 finishers, and RoxHype's 70 to 74 figures rest on 129 men and 55 women.

The two datasets agree, but they are probably not independent, because both are built from the published results of the same season. HYROX Insider is looser. Its goal of beating the average at ages 25 to 39 is under 1:35 for men and under 1:50 for women, which is 8 to 10 minutes slower than the men's medians and 14 to 16 minutes slower than the women's medians for those ages (our arithmetic). Use the large-sample medians for what a typical finisher does, and the Insider bands below for ranges by level.

What is a good time for my age group?

Age matters less than training history, but the published bands help you set expectations. HYROX Insider lists an intermediate band for each age group, and for men it grows by about 25 minutes between the late twenties and the sixties. The table shows a selection of those bands.

Read a band as the middle of experienced athletes in that group. It is not a standard you need to hit. The site says its bands follow published age-graded standards and checks them against about 2,400 US and UK results, but it does not explain how it set the cut-offs, so use them as a rough guide.

What is a good time for a beginner?

For a first race, about 1:40 to 2:15 is a normal range for men and 1:50 to 2:30 for women, and finishing with controlled pacing is a better goal than a specific time. Three sources give beginner ranges, and they overlap rather than agree exactly.

Kracey says first-timers are not flagged in the results, so its rows are estimates for the 75th to 90th percentile of Open finishers. Your own starting point matters more than any table. If you can run 10 km comfortably and have trained the stations a few times, the faster end of these ranges is realistic. If you are newer to running, plan on the slower end and build from there.

Why do the sources disagree?

The datasets answer slightly different questions, so the numbers do not match. Four differences explain most of the gap, and none of them means one source is wrong.

• Division mix: a site that counts mostly Open singles will report slower averages than one that includes Pro athletes.
• Season and year: loads, courses and the field change, and a figure from 2022 is not a figure from the 2025-26 season.
• Sample: Rox Lyfe, HYROX Insider and HyroxDataLab use different sets of races and finishers, and one source's Season 8 sample is about 12,500 results.
• Average versus median: a few very slow finishes pull an average up, so a median is usually lower than the average for the same group.

An example is the men's totals. Rox Lyfe lists 1:27:56 as the Open men average, while the Season 8 run, station and transition figures from HyroxDataLab add up to about 1:22:02 for men. Treat both as plausible and pick one source to compare yourself against, so the comparison stays consistent.

Where does the time go: running, stations or the transition zone?

Running takes about half of your race, the stations about 40 percent and the transition zone about 8 percent, with the rest being small extras. HyroxDataLab gives this rule of thumb for target splits, and its Season 8 data supports it.

Average athletes lose the most time on the heavy stations. In Rox Lyfe's 2022 comparison of average and elite Pro-level men, the average athlete was slower by 3:17 on the sled pull, 3:13 on wall balls and 2:54 on burpee broad jumps. That is a Pro-level comparison from 2022, so use it for direction rather than for exact targets.

How do I set my own goal time?

Pick a goal from your recent running and your station practice, then turn it into a target for each run and station. Our fitness race time calculator does the second step for you, using the published shares above. All of its numbers are estimates.

1. Start from a realistic baseline: a recent 10 km time, a few practised stations and the range for your group in the tables above.
2. Choose a goal slightly faster than that baseline for a stretch target, or at the baseline for a comfortable one.
3. Enter it in the calculator, choose singles or doubles, and read the target for each run, station and transition.
4. Pick a pacing profile. Even keeps the runs close to your average kilometre. Realistic makes run 1 quick and run 8 the slowest, as most athletes actually race. Safe start holds back the first runs so you arrive at the heavy stations with energy left.
5. Test the targets in a race simulation in training, then adjust the goal up or down.

For a first race, the safe start profile is the conservative choice. Going out too fast on run 1 is the most common pacing mistake.